How does the 818 deal with dd or dts material? Does it recognise that it can’t decide it and stays silent, or does it spray white noise over your speakers? If the latter then it’s clearly not a go-er but if it’s the former then it could be a separate input which you might choose to switch to when there’s a pcm stream?

I’ll have to find some time to test this myself, but it would be easier if the TV had 2 optical outs and then when my wife switches the tv on, everything is fine and this would just be for me to play with smile

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Office: Audioquest Dragonfly, Cyrus 6DAC, Monitor Audio CPW Gold
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